#716 – Late Season Race (and training) Focus
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at injecting your late season race/training with a little positive mojo. We look at the positives and the tough spots you might face and how to get through them. Seasonal EPO, Late season FOMO as others sit around watching football, and understanding the emotional swings of peak training. We get into excitement vs. fulfillment so you can have a better perspective on your upcoming race. We look at how hard things create breakthroughs when we least expect it. We talk about overly ambitious goals and why they can be a good thing. We also remind you that every single race is HARD. Be ready for the challenge while you're out there. Choose strong and steady over Epic as you benchmark. And finally we go down memory lane on Louisville. Mike's humble beginnings. Robbie's rocky period. And how all of this has come together better than we imagined, or maybe even recognize.
Topics:
- Even perfect days are messy
- New York, Chattanooga, Augusta
- Sundown Swims
- Louisville is Back
- Every race is hard
- Seasonal EPO
- Late Season FOMO
- The hardest Ironman you'll do is the one you're training for now
- Healthy level of fear and self doubt
- 100% jacked
- The blame game
- Overly ambitious Goal? - go for it.
- Greatest time of year for training
- Isolating sport to the 10th power
- Emotion and motivation levels
- Excitement vs. Fulfillment
- Something new always gets old
- How to find new in the old?
- When you're tired you need more
- The mood swings of peak training
- You're doing it for the right reasons. . . remember that
- Hard things create breakthroughs
- Trains and training
- Slow Burn
- Reaping rewards from the journey
- Race day is graduation
- Body of work - Remember what you went through
- The leverage of a completion of a race
- No one's guaranteed a good race day
- We're hardest on ourselves
- Chasing EPIC
- How many highs and lows you go through
- There's no hiding from race pain
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, buddy? It's another perfect day to kick back and not have to worry about racing up here. |
| 0:26.0 | I just rubbed it in ahead of the late season podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | It's September 21st, the year, it's 2023. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome on board, everybody. |
| 0:35.4 | You listen to Crushing Iron Podcast, episode 716 oh yeah baby love you just jabbing |
| 0:43.5 | it to people that are lining up up at you know was it Jones Beach New York this weekend |
| 0:48.4 | for sold out 7.3 with like 3,000 plus you got iron men Chattanooga you got augusta i mean there's a lot going on |
| 0:56.0 | you're like yeah it's nice just kicking back here at the leg got your crocs on probably your |
| 1:01.4 | slippers probably posted up looking out of the water a cup of coffee probably still on your robe |
| 1:05.9 | you got a knitted cap on you're just been just embracing the offseason and just jabbing it. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.8 | Those of us that are still grinding away. |
| 1:14.1 | You got Conan a few weeks. |
| 1:15.9 | You got all kinds of races still ready to happen. |
| 1:17.9 | But yeah, it is. |
| 1:18.9 | It is beautiful day here. |
| 1:19.9 | Beautiful Thursday. |
| 1:20.8 | Hope you have all had a fantastic week and enjoying yourself thoroughly, whether it's your beginning of your off season or you are still smack dab in the middle of the season. |
| 1:32.8 | And that's what we're going to talk about today, as promised, that we discussed on Tuesday. |
| 1:37.6 | And we'll, we'll be totally honest with you. |
| 1:39.6 | We did about a 15 to 20 minute pre-show meeting about our topic for today. |
| 1:43.8 | And then towards the |
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